Joseph J. Romm

Stubborn GM engineers its decline

As gasoline prices surge to record highs, General Motors teeters on the verge of collapse with a credit rating one step above junk. This is hardly coincidence. GM has willfully ignored fundamental trends in technology and oil.

May 2, 2005

Lots of Hot Air About Hydrogen

Hydrogen, the most overhyped alternative fuel since methyl tertiary-butyl ether, is not a primary fuel, like oil, that we can drill for. It is bound up tightly in molecules of water, or hydrocarbons like natural gas. A great deal of energy must be used to unbind it.

April 9, 2004

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